Self Destruct

Given the Foundation's deep love of scorched earth warfare, its important to ensure their facilities and equipment can be easily removed.

Base Systems

Every Foundation installation includes a emergency self-destruct system of some kind. This is usually a single large thermo-nuclear device designed to also severely irradiate the area. When placed in inhabited regions, the devices are usually re-set to produce less dangerous fallout. Typically, a single, large device placed centrally deep beneath the facility is preferred, but in some cases multiple devices must be placed.

This system is typically for eminent emergencies only, whenever possible conventional explosives are used to ruin anything of value to the enemy while important fixtures are removed ahead of time.

Starships

Aboard ship this is slightly more difficult, as most Foundation-built spacecraft are much too hardened to be destroyed by a single detonation. Also, the risks of such a device being hijacked during an intrusion is considered too high.